https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/07/29/microsoft-sphere-ultimate-virtual-earth/ Data, Cities, IoT, Writing, Music and Making Things Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/07/29/microsoft-sphere-ultimate-virtual-earth/#comment-2729 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:38:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1617#comment-2729 haha. how very douglas coupland…

]]> https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/07/29/microsoft-sphere-ultimate-virtual-earth/#comment-2727 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:17:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1617#comment-2727 I don’t know about this one… doesn’t seem very useful – especially not for Google Earth. It seems fine as a regular globe, but how would you zoom into a map (as in Google Earth)? – the curvature defining the sphere seems limiting to the whole surface of the Earth, not a small section of it. Detail maps have always been best suited at flat maps, this will not change that.

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